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      Strong and confidential passwords are essentials to us. Not only for financial banking sites but also for the Social Networking sites.
      With the social networking sites like Facebook and twitter a possible cause would be using your personal information, posting a fake status about you, subscribing/following to anonymous websites/blogs/users etc.

Key: Have strong Passwords.
      One of the most important key to protect your online security is to have the strong passwords which can change frequently. Since, to set the strong passwords is bit tricky and even to remember the passwords for various sites is more challenging for us.
      One of the way to create these strong passwords is to set a phrase which can be used to enter as password. But doing this you may feel time consuming for entering the complete phrase. So, either way you can use the initials of the phrase. For instance, "IboTNu#B.C" for 'I blog on technology network using blogger.com'. While doing this you are aware of the variants like upper-case, symbols and letters used with there meaningful presence in the passwords. Microsoft has an excellent suggestions on password creation and a password strength checker.
More Tips:

• Don't use same passwords for all sites :  
         Even if you create a strong passwords, don't use same for it every sites. Since, if hacker steals your passwords from any of the sites you logged in. It can be used to break into accounts for your other sites. Hence, you need to be more tricky here while using your strong passwords for different sites such as you may use the initials of the sites in your string passwords. For example: for Google account you could have "Go" lying somewhere in your password and "Fb" could be used for Facebook Account.
• Do have Extra Security for your financial Websites:
         Here your may strengthen your password more by inserting some more letters, symbols or numbers.

For More information on passwords you may like to visit the below links:

• Facing the Pain of Passwords.
• Tips to create strong passwords.

Hopefully, after reading the above post, we all might have configured our strong passwords.

      When URL shorten came out, many of us take the advantage to shorten our long URL's. Also, it helps spammers to shorten their malicious URL too.

      So, URL shortner has pros and cons. But there are websites which helps us to identify or preview the short URL 's for their complete expansion.

      Here below are the some URL expander sites which u would like to visit and differentiate the Malicious URL.

• Long URL
• URL X-ray
• Sucuri

      Else, Install for Firefox or Chrome extension to Expand bitly links (and many other short links) on any web page to see page titles and links to bitly Info pages before clicking. 

      Mimedia is an online file backup and storage service. It offers customers some paid services as well as free option to store up to 7GB of data in the cloud.

      Like other online backup services Mimedia also provides access to data from any other computer, iphone, ipad or other smart phones. You can share the videos, photos, documents, Music and do find an dashboard to view and get instant access for your data.

      Other services like Dropbox provides 2GB of free space whereas Box.net provides 5GB. So, Mimedia is nice in order to have an Free space about 7GB. Paid plans start at $9.99 per month or $99 per year for 250GB of storage. That compares favorably to Dropbox, Mozy and Carbonite.

Check out this video to see how MiMedia works:

      Currently Mimedia supports only Windows but the other OS users can upload and access their data using the web interface.

      On 8th June, Google, Facebook, Yahoo! etc will be the most organizations that will offer their content over IPv6 for 24-hour "test flight".

      The aim of the "test flight" is to motivate the organizations like Internet Service Providers, Hardware vendors, Web sites; to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure successful transition as 4 address run out.

      So Google created the Google over IPv6 program, where ISP have to promise search giant that they have good IPv6. In turn, Google will respond to DNS requests from those networks with IPv6 addresses for various Google properties such as google.com and youtube.com.

      At this point, it's hard to predict what this experiment could mean for the amount of IPv6 traffic that flows through the Intertubes. If a lot of users are IPv6-enabled, a good amount of traffic can move from IPv4 to IPv6 overnight. This depends on how many additional sites and networks join the effort, though.

      So, Lets see whether your Internet Service Provider updates IPv6 test it here.

      Millions of Apps uploaded and downloaded that are uncountable available for web and mobile. But how to get those right ones when needed. Now, Quixey - a dedicated search engine for apps which helps to find the apps that you required.

      Quixey - describes that its an functional engine for apps. So instead of searching an apps by its keyword or description, the user can search their apps with Quixey-defined functions.The results of Quixey are ranked by relevance, with all of the web, Windows Mac, Android, Firefox, IE, etc.. that matches your query.


      You can filter the results according to type or by associated platform. On the right hand side of the page Quixey displays system-generated text for each app that attempts to inform you that whether the app lives up to its stated purpose.

      It fetches the app information from blog, forums, social media to return the quality results. Quixey is an seven person team with year-and-half to build the new technology to collect data for apps.

      Co-Founder of Quixey "Tomer Kagan" says that Quixey will soon launch developer pages to help developers to get their applications discovered.

      The above news i grabbed from Mashable which has exclusively obtained 500 Quixey invites for their readers. Interested parties can click on the "Quixey" here to get their private access to Quixey’s app search engine.

      Tout, a real-time social video update service which let you share 15-seconds video clips with your friend and followers. Its like video-twitter-short video updates to share with your followers.

      It allows you to share 15-seconds long clips so its about real-time conversation in video rather than text. Its an combination of real-time blog and rich clarity videos. The site has been testing with over 2,000 users, and went live on Tuesday.


      Tout's uses are flexible, and to an extent, unknown. In many ways, it plugs into the pre-existing model of social interaction online by allowing people an outlet to give updates on their life. But the video element may prove to have unexpected results.

      Downing also envisions that as tablets and devices like the Apple TV continue to catch on, that Touters could gather followings commensurate to something like television channels--real-time, highly personal reality TV for a future generation.


      But, its an simple way to keep updated about your followers and friends with brief video messages.

      A new search engine named as Foodily that is created to find over million of recipes. The website offers also an social sharing tools to enable users to share recommendations.

      The site's has recipes culled from more than hundreds of sources from TV chefs, food bloggers etc. The home page of the site Foodily is as simple as compare to Google's home page with just two boxes to help user to filter there recipes what they want to cook.

      In which a search box where user can enter the type of recipe they are looking for, and the second one in which they can specify what ingredient they don't want to put in recipe for example you can search for samosa without potato.

      The results are presented side by side with images, ingredients and instructions which allow the user to scroll and compare the dishes. User are also allow to share the recipe on social networking sites like twitter and Facebook. Also, they can save the recipe in a folder on a site.


      So, using Facebook connect, users can see what recipe that Facebook friends do like and also they share recipe which they like via Facebook. Also they can create an event on Facebook to which user can be invited, using the menu assembled from Foodily searches.

      An Computer wizards from London created an website which gives an answers to your questions.

      The website named as trueknowledge.com provides answers to your questions and act as 'phone-of-friend'.

      Unlike other search engines it gives you an direct answers of your question asked rather than providing links for it.

      For example, if an user ask an Who created true knowledge?. The snapshot of the result shown in below figure.


      If the website unable to answer your question, it inform user about it. However, more and more data are fed into website. This then able to provide more answers to its users.

      These Answering Engine uses semantic technology and a consolidated database of facts, lexical knowledge and common sense. Hope these website helps to find our answers more quickly than the search engines..

      A new Firefox Trojan had been discovered that forces the browser to save password and used them on an infected PC to create new user account.

      The Trojan-PWS-Nslog malware was discovered by security Company Webroot. Actually the Trojan adds a few lines of the code and comments out the other portions of the code from the file of the Firefox file called "nsLoginManagerPrompter.js" with the result that all the passwords get saved locally without any input from the user.

      The Trojan Creates a new account under the name "Maestro" on the infected computer. It then "scrapes information from the registry, from the so-called Protected Storage area used by IE to store passwords, and from Firefox's own password storage, and tries to pass the stolen information onward, once per minute - added by Webroot researcher Andrew Brandt.

      Webroot can easily identify and remove the Trojan from infected machines, it says. To fix the modified Firefox file, users should download the latest Firefox installer and install it over the existing installation. No bookmarks or add-ons will be lost in the process, Brandt said.

      Since, Firefox ranks 2nd in Browser market, also by default it does remember password. to avoid to these, go to tools in menu and select options, select security tab and uncheck the remember password, Webroot Advices.

      So, be safe while browsing from our all time favorite Mozilla Firefox ..

      Now, using a program named as IncrediMail which enhances your all boring e-mail by adding some colors and fanfare to it. It also manages all your email messages, communications, contact details and email-transactions.

IncrediMail allows you to:

• Bring your emails to life with animated 3D effects.
• Choose from 100's of amazing email backgrounds.
• Get notified of incoming emails by special animated characters (called Notifiers).
• Add fun emoticons and animations to your emails.
• Manage all your emails from different accounts (like Yahoo and Gmail) in one place.

      So, now enjoy mailing to friends by making it colorful...

Dowload Link   :  IncrediMail Software.
Official Website:  incredimail.com

      Similarity is an useful software that helps to delete and find the similar, duplicate files such as MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, FLAC, APE, WV, MPC etc..

      These is an program where the similarity of the sound part is checked, not just music tags or the file content but also it analyzes the artist, title, album of the music which is present in the audio files and compare these parameters with other audio files.

      You can adjust sensitivity of searching criteria to find exact or similar files. Duplicate files can be deleted or browsed. The list of duplicate files can be sorted, exported to play-lists, and acted upon.
      You may not know how many duplicate audio files on your computer hard disk will be present that you have been downloaded from different Internet, CD's etc.. Since Similarity would help you to solve and remove these duplicate files with just little effort of setting your criteria for duplication search..

Hope these files would some how help our PC with some more space to store files..

Download Software From Here: Similarity (1.68 MB Size)

      Recently, in Bangalore an Hidden Reflex has announced an launch of browser named as "Epic" which aims to make all Indians proud.

      Epic, is the first entirely Indian made browser which is based on Mozilla platform that comes with lots of India centric features. The company Hidden Reflex was founded by an US based Engineer Alok Bhardwaj in 2007. The company is in Bangalore.

      Apart from these Epic browser when you install it the first thing you will get is the bright colours of the browser. Epic is highly customizable and initially comes with a "Peacock" background that isn't too easy on the eyes. Also, you can change the background of the browser. Even at the launch there are about 1500 themes for Epic.
      The browser consists host of applications such as Twitter, Facebook etc.. on its sidebar. Epic also comes with an inbuilt anti-virus protection. It also do supports around 12 Indian languages and an India content sidebar that aggregates news headlines, TV to live cricket commentary and other things that matters to us Indians.

      Download an Free Epic browser here: Epic Browser

      Although india is not an ranker when it comes to total number of internet users or the availability of broadband connectivity.

      But there is an one thing in which india are ahead i.e Spam. India is an Second largest Spam Emanating source in the world after USA.

      These calculation are revealed by security analysis firm Sophos. Sophos had released an its annual list of top spam polluters. An general snap shot of list is shown below:


      According to the Sophos spamming is done increasingly and it becomes malicious. Also lots of spams are generated by financially motivated criminals to control the compromised Zombie computers for the purpose of spamming also to steal identity and secure information.

      They also added that internet users should not click on links or attachments in the spam mails which can make their PC controlled by other cybercriminals.

      Spam emails make up 97 percent of all emails received by business email servers, both putting a strain on network resources and wasting a huge amount of time to lost productivity.

      According to the news recently Gmail users received an notice from the Gmail team to update their account details for the security reasons. This particular legal notice from Gmail requested the users to update their account name, password, occupation, birth date and country of residence etc..

      It also includes the warning that the users which are unable to update the above details within next 7 Days then they would loose there Gmail account permanently.

      The Mail also includes that "Gmail Team is working on total security on all accounts in order to make Gmail better as ever and as a result of this security upgrade we require all Gmail members to verify their account with Google. To prevent your account from disability you will have to update your account by clicking the reply button and filling the space below."

      These phishing activity has been rise since from December, also its biggest target is Banking Sites but now its followed by free email services such as Gmail, Yahoo etc.. & with Social Networking Sites such as Orkut, Facebook etc..

      While discussing the issue one of the staff from Google said that, we always advise our users to be wary of any message that asks for your personal information, or messages that refer you to a web page asking for personal information. Google or Gmail does not send unsolicited mass messages asking for passwords or personal information; even if the message asking for it claims to be from us, please don't believe it.

      So please be sure & careful for clicking such links & updating such details. We do know that it is an hard job to identify between the fake & original notices. But still we should be well enough to handle these attack from now.

      Google had recently an new feature to add the attachments for your mails.
These feature saves time for attaching multiple files. These feature allow to you to drag & drop multiple files from your local computer into the attachments in Gmail.

Following is the procedure to attach the file(s) in an new mail.

1) Open an new compose mail box & open the folder which contains the file you wish to attach in a mail as shown below:


2) Now select the File(s) from the folder & drag the files from folder to drop into the attachments as shown in below :


3) These add you file(s) as an attachment to your new mail as shown below:

Note: Currently, this feature works only in latest builds of Firefox 3.6 and Google Chrome.

      This new attachment adding feature will surely make your life easy but still you've to ensure that you select the correct files. Google promised to bring this support for other browsers soon.

      According to the latest news update it is possible now to hold the hands of your family & friends over internet with the help of specially designed robotic hands which experiences you the sensation of touch.

      It simply plugs into the computer & communicates with an electronic wristband to experience the sensation touch while shaking hand with your friends & family.

      Its not only shake & grip, but also able to give the signs of OK & Peace. These tool is developed by scientists at the Chinese university of Hong Kong .

      It works by using the electrical impulses generated by muscles as they contract. The signals are picked up by a sensor which sends signals to the computer that uses software to turn it into muscle movements.

      The information is transmitted over the internet to the receiving computer, where the signals are translated into instructions for the robotic hand that carries out the same hand movement, the media report said.

      The intention behind the research team had been to develop something which could help the elderly keep in touch with their families.

      "Although they can show their care through phone calls, physical touch is still a better way to express love. With the system, elderly people and their children and grandchildren can touch and hold hands via the internet and show affection directly."

      Mozilla has claimed that the Firefox mobile will put an end to app stores like the iPhone's App Store or BlackBerry App World. As the smartphone web browsers will share much of the desktop Firefox's engine and render both complex HTML and JavaScript, the Mozilla mobile Vice President Jay Sullivan anticipates many developers opting to write web apps instead of producing native code.

      "As developers get more frustrated with quality assurance, the amount of handsets they have to buy, whether their security updates will get past the iPhone approval process. I think they'll move to the web," Sullivan explains. Firefox Mobile is being developed for virtually every smartphone platform that embraces a comparatively unrestricted app environment, including Android, Nokia's Maemo, Symbian and Windows Mobile. It's currently only in beta stage for Maemo phones like the N900 but will be entirely unavailable on platforms like the iPhone, where Apple's submission rules ban most code interpreters and thus third-party web browsers.

      Web apps may still face a difficult road ahead based on user reactions. As a consolation to iPhone developers, Apple in 2007 tried promoting web apps as an alternative to the then-absent support for third-party native software. Most still objected, and whether due to this or other factors Apple launched its App Store a year after the iPhone became available.

      Google URL Shortener at goo.gl( http://goo.gl/ ) is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link that is easier to share, tweet, or email to friends. The core goals of this service are:

• Stability – ensuring that the service has very good uptime.


• Security – protecting users from malware and phishing pages.


• Speed – fast resolution of short URLs.

      Google URL Shortener is currently available for Google products and not for broader consumer use.

      While we, in India, haven't even started dabbling with 3G, half a world away in Sweden, the country s leading Telecom operator TeliaSonera has announced the launch of its commercial LTE services.

      LTE is a fourth generation mobile technology that offers blazing fast Internet access to wireless devices. In fact, with LTE, users get insane data speeds of up to 100Mbits/second. That s about 10 times faster than existing 3G services.

      The service is currently available in Stockholm, the Swedish capital, Oslo, the Nordic capital, and will expand to over 25 cities over the course of 2010. The service is targeted at users who use data intensive applications like live video streaming, video conferencing and online gaming. Now that the service has been launched, initial costumers will have to face the trouble of making their devices compatible with LTE, which is currently poorly supported in terms of hardware availability.

      TeliaSonera will provide special 4G modems to the users in order to use their devices whilst they are under 4G coverage. Looks like its time manufacturers start making 4G enabled mobile phones. Currently, the service is accessible only through the aforementioned 4G modem.